Monday, June 11, 2007

Hi-tech Paper-Boy..

Gone are those days when people used to say - "I used to work so hard during those days of my studies, while i used to manage so many things.. Go and drop paper in each house, distribute milk packets, study late nights only under the street lamps"... well i know sounds like filmi dialogs but some of them are real true. Paper boys had cycles to drop papers in each houses. No doubt, if you take your home town other than bangalore, may be u will find many places where the paper boy still owns a cycle to do his duty rather than a - "Hero Honda Splendor" as you see on your right. Yes, the paper boy you see on your right drops paper near around my area - Jayanagar 9th Block. He is more educated, can speak a fluent english, so crisp and neat... He knocks each door to collect monthly rental amounts, he is very fast in calculations, his is pretty quick in dropping papers. He takes real advantage of his bike by moving fast between places.. I guess.. the paper distribution owners are ready to pay the Petrol bills (allowance!) to drop paper and ease work provided you own your own vehicle.. which is better in saving time (?), remove false claims saying paper boy needs to be like this and that... !

   On your right you will see that the "Milk Man" has not changed his mode of transport as yet. He stil looks like a milk man, with the same old cycle and a bag containing those milk packets. Why is there a huge difference between these two jobs when once they were almost similar? These are the photos taken on the same street of mine.. No wonder, planning to grow faster always helps people... If some one would have given this milk-wala a moped, and if some one was ready to sponser him petrol, may be he would have also advanced. No doubt even in some parts of the biggie milk-business men go on scooters and bikes to carry huge milk-vans but no doubt they are definately not among the milk-packet-dropping pupil..



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